Administrative Accountability on Organisational Performance of Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.62486/agma2025242Keywords:
Administrative Accountability, Organisational Efficiency and performance, Goal Alignment, Resource Availability, Bureaucratic ResistanceAbstract
The study examined the effect of administrative accountability on organisational efficiency and performance of government officials, local government employees and community representatives; identify the challenges associated with implementing administrative accountability systems and how they can be addressed; assess the impact of administrative accountability on stakeholders trust and organisational goal alignment in Ethiope East Local Government Area (EELGA), Delta State, Nigeria. The study used mixed-method research of both qualitative and quantitative data. The data were sourced from questionnaire and in-depth interview, the questionnaire were on five point Likert Scale. The study population comprised 2000 stakeholders in EELGA, Delta State. A sample size of 350 respondents were drawn for adequate representation. Descriptive statistic and Spearman Rank Corrolation was used to analysed the data. The result showed that administrative accountability has effect on organisational efficiency and performance of government officials, local government employees and community representatives, the challenges associated with implementing administrative accountability systems showed that insufficient resources, staff resistance to accountability systems, and inadequate training cause multiple waves of policy, conflicting policies, or duplicate responsibilities hampers comprehension and lessens enforcemen; administrative accountability has impact on stakeholders trust and organisational goal alignment in EELGA, Delta State, Nigeria. However, the study evidence that with the right measures and approaches, administrative accountability can be a useful weapon in enhancing productivity, performance and realising organisational goals in EELGA, Delta State, Nigeria. This study contributed to the existing body of knowledge by carrying out a research on administrative accountability, looking at both its effect, association and impact on organisational efficiency and performance of EELGA, Delta State, Nigeria, ultising both qualitative and quantitative techniques, while extant literatures showed that, other scholars used effects, relationships or impacts to analysed administrative accountability and organisational performance of studies in Nigeria and that of outside Nigeria.
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